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1. LOCALLY BREWED HIROSHIMA
SAKE - OUTSIDE IN
1 day 12 hours
45 minutes
urious about the Daiginjo
Gold Kamotsuru Sake
bottle, which Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe
chose for US President
Obama at their meeting, I immediately
head off to the Kamotsuru Sake Brewing
Company in Hiroshima - "The Sake
Town" of Japan. The Kamotsuru Sake
Brewing Factory is located in a small
street. Its walls are decorated white
and filled with square frames knitted
together. From the outside, you can
see the very typical architecture of a
Japanese Sake Brewery and smell the
slight fragrance of sweet rice in early
winter.
Locally brewed Hiroshima Sake, with its
rich flavor from the bounteous natural
surroundings, is highly popular even
among Japanese Sake connoisseurs. It
is a precious experience to visit a local
brewery and sample the world of fine
sake. For the Japanese, Sake is not just a
beverage, but also a spiritual drink that
connects people with the Divine. You
will surely find a range of sake barrels
filling every corner of the shrine since
BEING
A WANDERLUSTER
IN HIROSHIMA
Text: Phan Cac Truc - Photos: Qing
"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth,
for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it
is the time for home." - Edith Sitwell. And yes, if you come
to Hiroshima this December, you will find a homely city
with warming Sake, mouth-watering Okonomiyaki, and very
tempting newly-baked Momiji cake.
Japanese people believe this pure liquid
is the best gift to dedicate their gods.
Drinking Sake thus becomes a tradition
at major events such as Seijin Shiki - the
ceremony of maturity and SansanKudo
- the wedding ceremony. As a Japanese
proverb says "All of life's milestones,
together with Sake."
After seeing how Japanese people
make their Sake, I could understand
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